Gone but not forgotten

Sonnet in tetrameter

Gone but not forgotten.

 

My father’s bald and wears a wig

My older brother shaves his head

I wonder is it infra dig

Agreeing with what mother said.

About masculine vanity.

Women prefer a man with hair

Though they accept that it might be.

Only temporarily there.

The hair you run your fingers through

By middle age may disappear

The only thing that you can do.

Is stroke his ego not his hair.

He’s still the man you chose to wed.

Though his hair may have departed.

 

Wednesday, 18 April 2012